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Internal West
by Priscilla Becker
"The poems are like quiet houses, constructed of straightforward
Reviewed by Adam L. Dressler
Oubliette
"Rather than engineer false salvations, Richards draws on his nutshell-autocracy to work up a ready allegory and elevate to allegorical status stuff that used to just muck around as nouns."
Reviewed by Joyelle McSweeney
One Crystal in Another: A Translation Conversation
No Shelter: The Selected Poems of Pura López-Colomé
"I find myself frequently grateful to Gander for two conversations
Reviewed by Mark Schafer
A Point Is That Which Has No Part
"Whatever the poem’s message may be—any guess on my part
Reviewed by Adam L. Dressler
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language and streamlined structures, in which a spiritual violence
takes root, blooms, and is examined as one would a cherished pet."
by Peter Richards
Translated by Forrest Gander
as I read his translations--the conversation between him and me,
and the earlier conversation he held with López-Colomé's poems."
by Liz Waldner
would be just that—the mechanism is wordplay."